Are you curious what we have been up to or what we are planning for the upcoming year? Please check out the below information.
In the past year, AHG has been an integral part of the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve provided extensive, curated resources for herb-based COVID responses via our website, sponsored free webinars on botanical protocols relevant to our emerging understanding of the virus, and crafted safe practice guidelines for herbal practitioners. Despite the restriction on travel and social gathering, we quickly restructured our annual symposium to an interactive virtual platform that attracted more than 700 individual attendees and 26 vendors. We were able to fund our annual community service awards and welcomed many new members to the Guild.
This heroic task results from our dedicated staff’s team efforts, who have shifted seamlessly into a remote work environment, the guidance of our Governing Council, and the many volunteers who are active on AHG committees. And we accomplished this while we all navigated the disruptions in our personal lives set in motion by the pandemic.
We are proud of what we did in the past year, and we know that our work continues. It may be a year or even years before life returns to anything resembling normalcy. And the challenges to our health that the pandemic has created are still unfolding. Our belief that botanical medicine plays a critical role in the future of health care is stronger than ever. The AHG will continue to fulfill our organizational mission to support access to herbal medicine to all, to advocate for excellence in herbal education through our programs and those of our member schools, and to promote clinical herbalism as a viable profession rooted in ethics, competency, diversity, and freedom of practice.